They Perched On Their Stilts... · saosin

101 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 30, and 13 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
THEY PERCHED ON THEIR STILTS... · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 49 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 13-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 17 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 31-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 8 sections: 37 keep time, 55 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-6.

PART C
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEBAQANC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is They Perched On Their Stilts...?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is They Perched On Their Stilts... hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in They Perched On Their Stilts...?

22 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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